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Classmates Decoded
Classmates Decoded Ever wonder about those strange designations we use throughout Northwestern to identify alumni of the various schools of the University? Here's the complete list. AF Air Force Commission CB Chicago Business CPS Center for Public Safety (formerly the Traffic Institute) D Dental EB Evanston Business G Graduate (Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences) GD Graduate Dental GJ Graduate Journalism GL Graduate Law GM Graduate Medicine GMcC Graduate McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science GMu Graduate Music GS Graduate Speech GSESP Graduate School of Education and Social Policy, Education H Honorary J Medill School of Journalism KGSM Kellogg Graduate School of Management or Graduate Business L Law M Medicine McC McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Mu Music N Nursing Nav Naval Commission S Speech SCS School of Continuing Studies SESP School of Education and Social Policy, Education Tns Transportation Center WCAS Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts
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Class Notes 1950s Art Brickman (EB51) of Fort Wayne is enjoying his retirement, playing golf, traveling and performing volunteer service with the Lions Club, Toastmasters, Red Cross and his community board. I. Vida Chenoweth (Mu51) of Enid, Okla., is an ethnomusicologist and classical performer on the marimba. She published two books, SING-Sing (Macmillan Centre for Pacific Studies, Canterbury University, 2000), and Melodic Perception and Analysis Revised (St. Albans Print, 2001). The International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England, this year named her one of 2,000 outstanding musicians of the 20th century. Sybilla Avery Cook (SESP51) of Roseburg, Ore., a retired school librarian, is an occasional consultant for the Roseburg public schools. She has written books and materials for school libraries and co-authored Battle of the Books and More: Reading Activities for Middle School Students (Highsmith Press, 2001). Jean Larson Damisch (WCAS51, GSESP69) of Northbrook, Ill., president of Chicago North Shore Alumnae Panhellenic, presented certificates to 16 Northwestern sorority juniors and seniors with the highest academic averages at an April benefit luncheon. She also attended June's National Teachers Hall of Fame Induction at which newsman Bill Kurtis was the keynote speaker. Annalee Schendorf Gilbert (S51) of Swarthmore, Pa., retired after 20 years as a partner in a retail craft store and now makes pottery. She and her husband, Chuck, have two children, Susan Zencka, a Presbyterian minister, and Jon Gilbert, who raises horses. Laurene Mabry (SESP51) of Vandalia, Ill., was a professor of physical education at Illinois State University until retiring in 1985. She serves on the design committee for Vandalia's Main Street USA Program and enjoys golf, bridge and poker. Margaret Rankin Rittenhouse (GMu51) of Singer Island, Fla., is president of the Palm Beach Alumnae Association of Alpha Xi Delta and represented her chapter at the national convention in Washington, D.C., in June. She retired from teaching piano and harpsichord but still performs as a soloist and accompanist. Michael Weissman (WCAS54) of Highland Park, Ill., is chair of the financial services department and partner at the law firm of McBride, Baker & Coles in Chicago. Shirley K. "Pat" Sable (WCAS55) of Los Angeles is an adjunct associate professor of social work at the University of Southern California and has a private practice. Her book, Attachment and Adult Psychotherapy, was published by Jason Aronson this year. Richard Wyszynski (Mu55) of Chicago is a music teacher and lecturer who has taught classes at Northwestern, DePaul, Loyola and other local universities. He produced and conducted a multimedia program in July on Alexander Tcherepnin, a fellow composer and teacher at DePaul. Roger A. Ragland (WCAS56) of Hebron, Ill., is vice president of Dean Foods. He also raises quarter horses and rebuilds old Chris Craft boats. Evonne Seron Schulze (S56) of San Diego retired from the board of trustees of the San Diego Community College District after 12 years and was appointed to the California Post-Secondary Education Commission by Gov. Gray Davis. She also serves on a committee to revise California's master plan for education. Vera Chatz (J57) of Evanston is writing a book describing how she and her mother escaped from Nazi Germany in 1939 aided by former Illinois Sen. James Hamilton Lewis, who was instrumental in the issuance of their visas. Her husband, James Chatz (L58), and son, Barry, are lawyers with the Chicago firm of Arnstein and Lehr, where Lewis had been a partner. Ron Dunbar (M57, GM60) of Atlanta, a former professor of anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, is enjoying his retirement. Ron Paul (McC57, KGSM58) of Chicago is the president of Technomic, a food-service consulting firm in Chicago. Leon Waldoff (WCAS57) of Urbana, Ill., is professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He wrote Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics: The Art and Psychology of Self-Representation (University of Missouri Press, 2001). Jane Cutler (WCAS58) of San Francisco, author of 12 books for children and adult short stories, won the Zena Sutherland Award for children's literature from the University of Chicago's Laboratory School in April. She was also awarded the 2000 Paterson Prize for young people's literature for The Cello of Mr. O (Penguin, Putnam, 1999). It was selected as one of the Children's Book Council's notable social studies trade books for young readers in 2000. Larry Dickerson (J58) of Burke, Va., is retired from Lockheed Martin Corp. in Oakton, Va. He won two gold medals at the U.S. Corporate Athletic Association's National Corporate Cup track and field meet in Renton, Wash., in July. He also is a USA Masters Track and Field Age Group All American and received the Potomac Valley Track Club's Outstanding Athlete Award in 1998. Amy M. Fremgen (J58) of Genoa City, Wis., is the editor of the Journal of Medical Registry Management. She had been associate director of the national cancer database of the American College of Surgeons and has authored or co-authored more than 50 articles and textbook chapters on cancer. Wes Snyder (S58) of Sarasota, Fla., is in semiretirement after 41 years in the home furnishings industry. He became president of the NU Club of Sarasota in April. Ben Bailey (GMu59, 67) of Jackson, Miss., a retired consultant to the president of Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Miss., and a professor emeritus of music, is writing a history of Mississippi's African American music. He was also chair of the music department and the humanities division during his 35-year tenure at the college. Johnetta Cole (G59, 67) of Atlanta was a presidential distinguished professor of anthropology, women's studies and African American studies at Emory University in Atlanta until retiring in the spring. She was the keynote speaker for the EVE Awards luncheon in Jacksonville, Fla., in June. Dollye Robinson (GMu59, 67) of Jackson,
Miss., dean of the School of Liberal Studies at Jackson State University,
served as associate band director, head of the music department and dean
of liberal studies over the last 49 years. The university named a new
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